Video Premiere - Bronco Forte - Obvious Alias

 

 

Video Premiere 

Bronco Forte - Obvious Alias

Releasing on Next Message Music, April 1st! The brand new album by the Bronco Forte quartet. It’s called Lightning Scars and features that wild second single Obvious Alias. We’ve been grooving hard with this track and the entire album and we are honored to be able to premiere the highly atmospheric, cyber punk hewed, band performance video for the Obvious Alias single! 

Lineup changes within the band have not resulted in a different sound, the air is still filled with Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Mojave Desert inspired heavy rock, but perhaps more defined and rich. It comes in all shapes and sizes, and Lightning Scars feels like a testament to the extremely different sides of all those that paved the way. Sun-baked and road-worn, echoing the loose, nocturnal swagger of sessions cut at the fabled Rancho De La Luna, the album was recorded at The Steakhouse in North Hollywood. (Also home to Era Vulgaris by Queens Of The Stone Age.) Across ten lean tracks, the band conjures desert campfire mystique and amplifier hum, and those fuzzed guitars glowing like heat lightning, will have their rhythms cruising like a midnight drive through Joshua Tree. There’s groove, grit, and a storyteller’s sense of pacing: choruses rise like mirages, riffs crunch like gravel under tires. Polished yet unforced, the album balances desert haze with sharp craftsmanship, marking a confident and vividly atmospheric second album. Bronco Forte seems comfortable with their strengths and deliver with Lightning Scars a beautiful compendium of stories. “…as the characters they depict strive to maintain their integrity in the face of a rapidly-changing world….” Integrity seems ingrained in the Bronco Forte four! 

Press play on Obvious Alias.

PR Wire: 

After so many iterations of heavy, desert-inspired doom rock over past decades, it seems the essence of purely driving riffs, earworm harmonies and strong songwriting that defined a genre has been forsaken. Bronco Forte are a return to the stark blast that made bands like Kyuss, Alice In Chains and Soundgarden legends. 

After years of creative toil and preparation, Los Angeles quartet Bronco Forte is stepping into the spotlight as a fully-formed heavy rock phenomenon, with roots in the classic heavy music of the 1970s, seasoned with a deeply modern sensibility and sonic approach. The songs on their debut full-length album, Lightning Scars, chronicle the uncertain lives of ordinary people in the cities and wildernesses of California and beyond, as the characters they depict strive to maintain their integrity in the face of a rapidly-changing world.

The band’s lyrics balance literary style and kitchen-sink realism. Their riffs are deep and dirty, conjuring up the kinds of swinging grooves that cause involuntary head-nodding. The song structures are clever without being cluttered, and the band’s judicious use of vocal harmonies brings a powerful pop sweetness that cuts like a ray of light through the deep swampy stomp of their songs. It all adds up to a fresh yet familiar take on hard rock for a new era, as they draw inspiration and energy from their musical ancestors while casting aside the weary genre cliches of the past. 

On Lightning Scars, guitarist and vocalist Chris Klepac’s focused songwriting and poignant lyrics meld seamlessly with guitarist Sako Injaian’s (All Hail the Yeti) energetic riffs to create a sonic tapestry that is somehow as catchy as it is heavy. Together, bassist Jen Glomboski (White Forest) and drummer Geoff Summers (Batillus, A Storm of Light) lay down a rhythmic foundation that is as solid and unwavering as the endless expanses of concrete and asphalt that blanket the band’s home of southern California.

Lightning Scars was tracked and mixed by engineer Kevin McCombs (Linkin Park, Story of the Year) at legendary North Hollywood studio The Steakhouse – the same studio where Queens of the Stone Age recorded Era Vulgaris. From there, the band took the audio to heavy rock mastering wizard Nick Townsend (Alice in Chains, Frankie and the Witch Fingers), who cut the resulting album to lacquer on his own personal lathe. Album art from Kevin “fetusK” Bernier (Prosthetic Records, Intronaut) completes the package.

Lightning Scars will be available on LP, CD and download on April 3rd, 2026. 

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